On December 24, 1941, Winston Churchill joined Franklin Roosevelt in Washington D.C. to plan for war. For England the blitz was on and the island nation stood alone. For the United States Pearl Harbor was three weeks prior and the war was joined. That night Franklin Roosevelt lit the nation’s Christmas tree for the ninth […]

This poem by Geffrey Davis appears in this week’s New York Times Magazine. My father held the unspoken version of this story along the bridge of his shoulders: This is how we face and cast to the river — at angles. This is how we court uncertainty. Here Secondly, a online doctor carried by subject ear […]

Reading the novels of David Mitchell